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TPO 08 - Question 3
Music Coming to Cafeterias
Mary Dixon, Director of the Student Life Committee, announced yesterday that beginning next semester university cafeterias will broadcast classical music during mealtimes. “Music will foster a more relaxed atmosphere.” said Dixon, "Students' lives are hectic, and mealtimes provide important opportunities to take a break and catch up with friends before moving on to the next class or assignment." Added Dixon. "We're also hoping that, if we provide the music, students will unplug their personal music devices—their walkmans and mp3 players or whatever—and will spend more time talking to each other. When students have their headphones on. they're not connecting with each other."
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 472.0 593.389002037 80% => Need more words or more difficult words.
No of words: 149.0 154.784114053 96% => More words wanted. You may: choose simpler words or speak faster or remove hesitations or remove long pauses, and fully use the time, do NOT save one or two seconds.
Chars per words: 3.1677852349 3.82920900774 83% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.49378814695 3.52088357496 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.24460006548 1.81998168104 68% => Word Length is similar.
Unique words: 73.0 93.7942973523 78% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.489932885906 0.608046397892 81% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 160.2 185.724439919 86% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.1 1.20224032587 91% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0146844798363 0.0833886788687 18% => It may have issues on recording quality or the content is not so closely related to content.
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 3.90020366599 51% => OK
Average paragraph length: 74.5 71.3690273242 104% => OK
STD paragraph length: 66.5 24.1299301424 276% => Paragraph length changes often.
Average paragraph duration: 30.645 26.8388033085 114% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 27.945 8.89323425527 314% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs changes often.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 65.0 40.266802444 161% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 2.29230769231 4.20756893501 54% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 1.67077206403 3.23972648638 52% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 0.925846153846 1.51236819293 61% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.655330550316 1.0352206224 63% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 68.0 37.9022403259 179% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 13.23 7.22384928717 183% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.194558823529 0.193825474362 100% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.177369950896 0.16431695912 108% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 44.49 46.6644602851 95% => OK
Average word duration: 0.298590604027 0.304040633073 98% => OK
STD word duration: 0.209310213035 0.193491353168 108% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 9.0 8.88594704684 101% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 7.16 6.97134419552 103% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.37 3.21433808554 43% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 61.29 59.1375356415 104% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.0215 0.985625594026 104% => OK
Rate of silence: 1.10947952358 0.643888735843 172% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 2.43106542666 2.61565628039 93% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.19105890031 1.58604529434 75% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.64081816138 2.01333574461 81% => Need more unique words.
Average articulation rates: 0.347567536913 0.322651457988 108% => OK
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 15.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.